Talk:Julidochromis

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Many people count all of the Julidochromis species, as too aggressive towards other fish for them to be kept in the common freshwater community tank.

However I found that this is not the case having kept Julidochromis transcriptus; I have kept a pair of juvinile J. Transcriptus for some time now and had no problems, I think that the key to this is to keep other peacfull east african cichlids in the tank as well, I have kept them in with three Kribbensis (Pelvicachromis Pulcher) and never had more than the slightest bit of aggression and even then only with the Kribs.

Using this method I have managed to keep J. Transcriptus with common tropical freshwater fish like Tetra and Danonins.

I'd advise that this material go into a "Julidochromis in aquaria" section within this page. The high pH in tanks emulating Lake Tanganyika is too much for many community species. Some tolerant species eg: mountain cloud minnows etc would be fine. Will add an aquarium section MidgleyDJ 04:57, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

The taxonomic side of things with this genus is a tad problematic... Here they sell a Julidochromis transcriptus gombe which I know has been reclassified as J. marlieri but looks more like a Katoma. This is the species/race in the bottom photo in the article. I have left it Gombe but it might be Katoma.

Riftreef 12:51, 8 March 2007 (UTC)